El Tercer Abecedario Espiritual y los Ejercicios Espirituales de san Ignacio Observaciones comunes

Abstract

This article analyzes the common theological and spiritual places of two works and processes that were relevant in 16th century in Spain: Third Spiritual Alphabet (1527) by Francisco de Osuna and the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola. Both represent two seemingly opposite central schools in the history of spirituality: the Franciscan Mysticism and the Ignatian Spirituality. However, and through intertextual analysis, after offering a descriptive framework of the context, we study a series of relevant confluences for Theology and Spirituality: 1) The immediate Experience of God; 2) The recollection or non-fragmentation of the understanding in the transformative process in God; 3) Light or Lucidity as a gift of spiritual discernment and adherence to Christ, visible through the gift of tears.